Check out these images of a new development that will bring hundreds of new homes and a sports stadium to south London

London property developer Galliard Homes has been given permission to build a new stadium and housing development in the Plough Lane area of Wimbledon, south London.

The new development, with construction slated to start as early as the middle of 2016, will transform the area, creating housing for thousands of people, along with a 20,000 capacity stadium, the first new football stadium built in south London for more than a decade.

It will also include tens of thousands of feet of retail and leisure space.

The development is part of the London borough of Merton's drive to build thousands of new homes, and broadly regenerate the area, something Galliard Homes Planning and Development Director Mike Watson was keen to stress: "The new homes will include affordable housing for local people and will make a significant contribution towards Merton’s own minimum 10-year target for new homes and the regeneration of this part of Merton."

Business Insider has been given access to CGI images of what the stadium and the homes surrounding it will look like once the project is completed.

Football team AFC Wimbledon and developer Galliard Homes are teaming up to develop a 14 acre brownfield site in Wimbledon, south London, building a new stadium and housing for thousands of people.

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At the centre of the new development will be AFC Wimbledon's new stadium. It will initially have 11,000 seats, but will eventually be expanded to a capacity of 20,000.

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AFC Wimbledon was founded in 2002, after the original Wimbledon club was moved to Milton Keynes. Since they were founded, the club have been playing their home games at a stadium in Kingston upon Thames, more than five miles from Wimbledon. The new stadium will be less than 200m from the site of Wimbledon's original stadium, Plough Lane.

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The project will lead to the demolition of the stock car, and greyhound racing tracks which currently stand on the site. The buildings will be knocked down in 2016, and the development is expected to take three years to build. Pictured is the dog track as it stands right now.

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Alongside the development's centrepiece new stadium, Galliard Homes is going to build 602 new apartments, which will either be studios or have one, two, or three bedrooms.

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The new apartments will be housed in three separate buildings to the south, north, and east of the stadium, and will all have outside spaces and courtyards, which Galliard Homes says will provide "amenity and play space" for residents.

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As well as the new stadium, and new housing, the Plough Lane development will feature other sporting and retail facilities. There will be roughly 13,500 square feet of retail space

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The site will also see 17,500 square feet of sports facilities constructed. This will include a squash club with six separate courts, a dance and fitness studio, and a gym.

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The development will include a boulevard running between the new housing and AFC Wimbledon's new stadium. There will also be a large piazza at the entrance to the new stadium.

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Galliard Homes' Planning and Development Director, Mike Watson said: “We are delighted to have received planning permission to redevelop this important brownfield site into a new multi-million sports led destination for Wimbledon. This is the third sports stadium project that Galliard Homes has been involved in, the others being the Emirates Stadium and Upton Park."

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The developers of the Plough Lane site say that many of the apartments will be "affordable housing for local people," although it did not specify how many of the 602 flats would be considered affordable.

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Speaking about the plans, AFC Wimbledon's chief executive Erik Samuelson said: “We are all absolutely delighted, this has been a momentous day for our club. This is our home and we are delighted that we have been granted planning approval to return to Wimbledon.”